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Nicole44

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  1. I would have said that two years ago comparing Indiana to Penn State. But I don’t see it that way now. Ultimately though who knows what 64 year old Cig is thinking. He’s got money. He’s gonna make tons more. He’s got Mark Cuban backing him. Other than Ohio state most Big ten foes look like paper tigers.
  2. Thank the Lawd for the title change. It automatically put me in a sad spot seeing it much less posting on here. Hook’em. 🤘🏼
  3. Ok. Kiffin at Penn State would be hilarious. Joey Freshwater to Happy Valley. Make it happen. He’s mercenary enough to take the money. And his character fits theirs just fine. But what about the co-Ed’s?
  4. Clearly if you have some kind of variation of red in your uniforms you can expect to be in the top ten. Be it maroon or orangish doesn’t matter. Was red the color used to make it? You’re safe. Don’t have it and you can fuck off from the top five I guess.
  5. Failing spectacularly will always be interesting to us spectators and as a bonus it’s for a school that hasn’t yet faced the reckoning they so richly deserve.
  6. What if he says no? I am guessing he does. What is plan B?
  7. He came back for them knowing what they are like. His weird matches their weird. Why would he want to go Darkside? Aggy showed they have money to burn on blast. Is happy valley an upgrade to College Station or even Texas for that matter? I say no but I’m not in the minds of head coaches either. Aggy didn’t exactly roll out the welcome bus for Elko. And his promo pictures looked like a Goodyear blimp terrorizing the town. Maybe he’s had enough. I think they’d want one of the OG’s like Terry Smith and see how he does and let him take the reigns and if he does well he is like 1-2 year HC on a short leash and they wait and see. Or they have their eye on someone specific outside of Cig.
  8. Until this year I would have said yes. Now they seem reasonable compared to the shitshow on all boards except food and travel here on surly. No shit.
  9. Aggy is just dumb. And unrealistic. And pissy little brother syndrome. They are not evil to me. Penn State is fucking evil. Penn Stare deserves a bigger reckoning than what they got. That mentality is more fucked than aggy. aggy is like whining baby brother. To me.
  10. Good points. You always bring excellent stuff to surly. I just feel like (and last year it wouldn’t have been true) it would be a dumb lateral move now he has Cuban money and wife happy and his age. It might even be less than a lateral move. Like look what he has managed to build at Indiana. Why leave? He is in the cat bird seat and OSU is beatable. Damn.
  11. It’s funny bc McGuire’s wife had a chat with him last year which he has openly talked about. She said “I have friends in Lubbock. I like it here. I have a bridge club I love. Win some fucking games so we don’t have to move.” Tech has the right guy for Lubbock.
  12. Not that it matters (coach speak and all that) but Cig said he was super happy where he was and so was his wife (which matters.) he’s also 67 right? I get the lure of the money but Indiana now has Cuban Cash.
  13. Good for Daniel Jones. Happy to see that guy having fun and beasting.
  14. terrible loss for the Rams. Dang.
  15. Out of curiosity bc I’m not good at math: in the Sark era what is the percentage of time our opponents score first vs us scoring first? And of the times our opponents score first, what percentage of those games do we win? Just curious. I suck at math. Didn’t know if those who don’t suck at math know the answer and can math smith it up for an answer. You don’t want that answer from me. It would take me a week. And be wrong. 😑
  16. Yikes. They are not making a bowl game.
  17. No love for the undefeated Navy midshipmen nor the undefeated UNLV Rebels YET I see…but I honestly don’t know which if any teams you would move out to move them in. I can imagine though being frustrated to be 6-0 and not be seen good enough to have a ranking. Navy has a chance with some ranked teams in the second half of the season to move in should they win. UNLV not so much.
  18. Yep. And it worked. And this is what I would love to see going forward. There was a real synergy between Arch and Sark yesterday and is something to build on. Sark taking what the defense is giving him and giving Arch the plan to execute for that individual opponent and him executing that. That will be amazing to watch if we can build on that shit. The team needed a rivalry game. A Golden Hat winner take all fight. They needed the release after the win to celebrate and be kids, to be reminded of how much fun winning is, we should be alright for Kentucky and that’s as far as I care to think ahead anymore.
  19. It’s because we need to figure out how to temper our expectations. (By that I don’t mean we shouldn’t expect to play well. And well enough to win the conference and well enough to play in the MNC and well enough to win that.) we need temper them to the game directly in front of us, take one fucking game at a time despite our need to look several games into the future and beyond. If most people just looked at Kentucky and what we need to do for that and then the next game and stop looking so fucking far ahead most people would calm the fuck down. I’m guilty of it too. I decided after Florida to simply look at one game at a time. I was far happier yesterday even when the first half looked like a clusterfuck. I was like next quarter. We will come out and smote them down. And we did. One game at a time. Shelve the fucking expectations except that we beat Kentucky. And move onto to next opponent. This looking to January shit is getting us all into an unnecessary tizzy. That and also looking at last year or the year before last like we have a Time Machine and can go back and change the way the playoffs went down. We can’t.
  20. He was set to be a huge star ⭐️ there is not a doubt in my mind. He would have taken roles that went to other actors (in his absence) that would have elevated those movies. He had IT. But I can think of several 1990’s and early 2000’s where he would have been amazing.
  21. It’s like everyone is hair trigger. Not just this board. Some of it I blame on influencers and Gen Z’ers. But damn it’s in personal lives, at work, on the street, on the news everywhere. Clapping back against haters. When all the haters did was offer up a criticism. I cannot imagine being a teacher these days. People simply do not get how hard a lot of our own parents were on us Gen X and Y folks. That was just a normal Sunday. You say anything now and someone becomes unhinged about anything. No matter how innocuous.
  22. I get that Franklin isn’t a BAD coach or anything but this fall this year was stunning given all the hype. They will probably lose to Iowa coming up. I don’t think he’s an elite coach but he’s not terrible. This fall is stunning. Like holy shit. Unless he wanted to leave and kept that shit completely under wraps. He is failing spectacularly.
  23. He can make all the throws. Once he puts it all together people’s mouths will drop wide open. He’s just on a learning curve. And he’s making steady improvements despite some Oline stuff and other things. I just hope he will still be playing for Texas (as he has wanted to do since he was a kid) when we see HIM. because one day he will step out onto the field and he will be HIM.
  24. Sark called a damn good game and arch was able to execute what Sark needed. Sark took everything that OU’s defense was giving us and picked the meat off the bone clean. If Sark and Arch can have that same kind of synergy from Kentucky on out we will win out. Our defense is good. We have the dudes. Penalties and red zone scoring efficiency are still issues but we were able to overcome both of those things the last two years and at least make the playoffs. Imagine if we can at least cure one of those two things moving forward. But there is danger in my hoping for all that. So I will only focus on the next game. I can only allow myself to look at Kentucky and Kentucky only. For me having any other future expectations is too much and honestly it puts me in a negative space. We cannot correct the past. Just make continued improvements and mark the next game off the list.
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